The Sun. — London, England, 1808-11-10 00:00:00

s - :ccdily informed of our departure from Bilboa ; for th(Algt) w marched out at eleven at night without of drum, they were close to us the following fnorning. We cannot move without their know it ; and it is difficult to account for it, because is impossible for the General to act with greater *prudence and circumspection. In short, there must be traitors somewhere; but Providence is on our side.. CORUNNA, OCT. 26.—His Excellency M. FRERE, the English Ambassador, set off for Madrid on the 24th and, the day before, his Excellency the Marquis D ROMANA proceeded on the same destination. AN ADDRESS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN BY A SPANIARD WHO LEARNED THE LANGUAGE OF THE HERO OF ITALY, AT THE FOOT OF THE APFENINEs, " Spaniards ! In two months you have gained innumerable victories, taken an incalculable quantity of standards and cannon, defended the towns that had been attacked, recovered from the power of the tyrannical Usurper a great part of Spain, and killed, wounded,. or taken prisoners more than 60,000 men. Hitherto 3ou have, each of you, fought by the side of your respective habitations, into which the binditti endeavoured to penetrate,•and upon which your valour has shed a distinguished lustre. It is now necessary to secure your liberty, _by coin— bating for your common parent until you have ex pelled them from your country. You will thus ri val, by your services, your ancestors who extermi nated the Saracens. Destitute of every thing, you have of yourselves supplied every thing. You have gained - battles without cannon, defended towns with out walls, made forced marches without shoes, and passed whole nights in the open air without brandy, and often without bread. None but Spaniards, tghting in defence of. their 'religion, their country, and a King so greatly beloved,. could have done so much and suffered so much. Spaniards, you are entitled to our thanks. To you, your grateful coun try will be indebted for,her felicity. The seven ar mies winch, but a short time since, arrogantly in sulted us, and audaciously assailed us, are now ei ther prisoners, or flying in dismay from your presence. " Those evil disposed persons who smiled at the necessities you were reduced to, and pleased them- ' selves with the expectation that your enemies would triumph, arc confounded and tremble. But, Spa niards, it must not be.concealed from you, that you still have done nothing, while there remains any thing for you to do. Neither Catalonia, Navarre, mit - Biscay, are yet rescued. Your enemies still tread upon the ashes of the conquerors of Ronces &c. At the commencement of the cam paign, you were in want of every thing; now you are abundantly provided : you have taken many of the enemy's magazines; abundant succours ine money, arms, and stores, have arrived from Eng land. The country has a right to expeCt at your hands, the grand-work of recovering, and com pletely securing, her freedom. You will fulfil her expectations !-' The principal obstacles are, undoubt edly, surmounted ; but you have still battles to fight, , cities to take, towns to deliver, and fatigues to un dergo. Is there one among you whose valour flags? Is there one who would return to his home, and ' wait to see it pillaged and destroyed by a brutal and rapacious soldiery, and himself reduced ro slavery under the most horrid of tyrants ? No there is twee such among the cunquerors of the armies of DUPONT, JUNO; MoNCE * /, DUHESSIE, LEFEBVRE, and BES SIEBES. Al of them are animated with the desire of exalting the glory of the Spanish nation. All of them are anxious to bring the war to such a conclu sion as shall indemnify the country for the immense sacrifices she has made, and the losses she has suf fered, and still suffers, from her treacherous allies. All are anxious, on returning to the bosom of their f imi;ies, to be able to lift up their hands, and to say, I BELuNGED To THE AltuY WHICH GAVE LIBERTY To :cri coUNTKY. F chow countrymee, I promise you tins giury, but only on condition that you go on with the same. ardour and enthusiasm which have hitherto eistinguished your career ; that you frus trate the ilttincrS of a treacherous and infamous enemy ; that you strew yourselves ready to 'break asunder the chains of the nations which he still op presses, to regress the horrible burnings, massacres, and pilhge in which those miscreara q indulge.thetn e selves; and that you do not give them time to cow- . plete the ruin of your most flourishing Provinces, nor any hole of Leing able to set foot again upon your soil. Without t;, is, your victories, your Va lour, your gcod fortune, the blood of your brethren who have fallen in the field of battle, will riot pro duce all the effects which you ought to expeCt from theme. " Provinces of the North of Spain ! The.incim . cible armies of your fellow-countrytnen approach you, in oßkr to bUrst asunder your chains, and to znni.:iiate the enemy of all nations. rake courage at ine sn;ht of thLar standards; your religion, your airy your laws and morals shalt be asserted, shall be free and triumphant." OVIkDO, OCT. 17.—During the nights of Satur day and Sunday last, the inhabitants continued the illumination, music, and pubic rejoicing, for the inst:diation of the Supreme Central .Junta. The Executive Cut mission api.ointed by this Junta have restored the pLople to their former tranquillity, by gleans-of the firm and aaive prat:et:dings which the membeis or it have directud. Itte General, Officers, and Troopi destined to support that important kjeCt have co-operated in accomplishing - it with the great est zeal and efficacy. CURUNNA, OCT. 26.—This morning, for the first time, the British Flag was seen oath led in the streets of this city. The and 43,) regiments, and, their proportion of artillery and waggm train, were dis etnftirk-Al. The men were marched to the barracks, where they wilt remain this day ; to•morrow they 4reto proceed to Betaiizos. Thee are to be follow ed. by tile 14111, arid battaii,to of the Guards, which are to teflve their Transports to-morrow, and afttr rt,t, will, in like manner, proceed on their way towards Bingos, where they are all to meet, taking, it is believed, different roads. Sir JOHN Moos E's army is to join them there. Their route will lie through Salamanca and Valadoiid.— The troops landed-here wilt probably defile to the Jett, and leave to tint right the mountains on the Not th of Leon, and pass through Benevente and . . . SANTANDER, OCT. 9.--Within the last thlee days have distabnkeci between seven and eight hundred of our valorous and loyal troops, who were in the North of Europe ; and since this disembarkation the others who did not arrive have appeared in sight. A general ringing of bells, many discharges of artillery, and meth rejoicing has taken place among the inha bitants of this city, who, with the strangers, wel comed their countrymen. At putting their feet to the - ground they prostrated themselves, and kissed it with the greatest reverence and tenderness, giving thanks to Heaven for having arrived at the land, as they said, of Christians. They . had not heard Mass, or received the Sacrament, since they had been with the enemy, because the French considered sacred and religious ceremonies unnecessary. Before their de parture, NAPOLEON, by means of his agentQ, had en deavoured to seduce them, by calling their Gmeral a traitor, and saying he wanted .to sell them to the English ; at the same time giving them his word of honour that be would land them in Spain ; but the many proofs which they had of his disregard to truth and religion, in every place where his army had entered, joined with some letters and papers which they hall received from Spain, and by which they were informed that the recognition of JOSEPH was false, were sufficient inducements not to be lieve these assertions. On their disembarkation here a general illumination took place. MAILS. Aluti vED —1 Heligoland. 0 X—l Gottenburgb, i Dublin, 3 W PKICE OF STOCKS Trull 13.1 I AT TWILV& O'CLOCK. Consols - —66 i THE SUN. SOLILM QUIZ DICILAZ YALSUbI AIIDIAT LON D 0 THURSDAY, NOVEMDER 10, 1808. A report was circulated this morning, with consi derable confidence, that the Emperor of Austria had declared war against France, and that BoONA PARTE, upon receiving the intelligence, had sud denly returned to Paris. We of course, do not pledge ourselves for the truth of this statement, but it appears from the Foreign Papers that the French recently aCtually stopped the circulation of the Vienna Gazette, in the North of Germany. WE received this morning Hamburg!) and Alton? Papers to the 29th ult. The intelligence they bring has been in general anticipated by the French and Dutch Journals. The Abci lle du Nord of the 28th contains a report that the Spaniards had obtained a decisive viaory over the French, but our accounts from Spain are of too recent a date to allow us to entertain a hope that the report is well founded. The statement in some of the German Papers, that the Emperor of RUSSIA intended to visit Vienna, appears to have been erroneous : his Imperial Ma. jesty has, we presume, been ordered back to Peters burgh. WE think it highly probable that a Battle has taken place in Spain before this time, though we by no means give credit to the reports which have reached this Country upon the subject{. It was said that the Windsor Castle Packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Sunday last, had brought an account of an anion between Generals BLAKE and NaY, in which the latter was defeated- with the loss of 3000 men. The fad is, that when the Windsor Castle left St. Andero no account had reached-that place of any action except thz,. skirmish to which we adverted yesterday. The following is a literal copy of a Letter from a Seaman on board the Africa, arid gives so interesting an account of the glion between that Ship and. the Danish Gun-boats, so lnduourable to our gallant Tars, that we are pursuaded it will be highly accept- . able to our Readers : " His Majesty's Ship Afri , :a. ofi r Copephage,n, ' Ott. 2,6, 'tBoB. ' • " MY DEAR FRIEND, " I offer sincere thanks to Almighty God., for his infinite mercy in preserving my life, this day, during a very severe ation with the Danish Gun-boats. We sailed from Carlserona, in Sweden, about a week since, with a convoy under our proteEtion of tear 200 sail of merchantmen, for Malino. Our convoy got into the wished-for port, all, I believe, except one taken, and three on shore, which were burnt by our people, to prevent their falling into the hands of the Danes. " The Africa kept -between the convoy and the Danes, to cover and proteEt them. About one o'clock this day it was quite calm. We saw the Danish Gun-boats rowing towards us, to the number of 32 boats : perhaps you do not knuw, but for your. information I tell you, when a large Ship is becalmed, she is quite unmanageable, a mere log on the water, which was our case. The Danes with their oars took the opportunity to come on our quarters and bows, where they knew we were weakest, and endeavoured to rake us. About half past two o'clock they came within gun-shot of us, and we opened a brisk fire on them, from as many of our guns as we could bring to bear on them. They continued advancing, and stationed themselves some on.the quarters, and some on the bows. These boats have in a calm much superiority over a ship; by means of their oars, they can pull ionzid - a Ship 1 - , any direction, and . being small, comparatively only like a speck on the water, they are _no mark to aim at like a larze Snip. 'They amounted, in all, as far as we can karn, to about 1920 men, and 128 guns, 32's and 42'5,, with swivels. To do them justice, the); . shewed much courage in coming near us, for our shot went far over them.. " .1 was stationed,on the lower gun-deck, to hand powder from the magazine ; and I confess I shud dered to see the poor sailors' knocked down in air Ship, as I could sometimes, IhrOUgh aslit in a thick flannel screen, which': was round the hatch way on which / stood, to . prevent any fire from the flashes of the guns communicating to the powder as it was handed up( to the people above us, imme diately over the magazine. I confess my weakness; my standing over the powder room, the shots pouring in, in every direction, together with shells, I thought the magazine would be blown up. I en deavoured to bear up against my fears, and suc ceeded. " Their grape-shot could only be likened to showers of stones or'dust thrown into the ship by shovels. The skreen round me was soon knocked away entirely, by splinters. A cartridge of powder, of 4 lbs. - which I held up over wy head to the man above me, blew up, the lid of the cartridge-box being off, without hurting me, except a slight stroke on the eye. I cannot think how I escaped, but by an over-ruling Providence, from destruffion.. Several large shots came through the ship's side, close to me. Two iron staunchions, six or seven inches in diameter, were shot through and broken to pieces. The roan over me to whom I handed the powder, was wounded in both arms, and in the breast. " At half past seven, those that remained of the Enemy began to pull away from us. lam informed by our people who were on deck, they supposed the Danes suffered extremely by our fire, as they saw several Boats sick, and they were picking up the people out of the water. Some had not more than five men left in them. The darkness of the night finished the business. . " At the conclusion we find that we have eight men killed outright, and in wounded many badly. The total is 61. " Our colours were twice shot away. The. Enemy supposing we hAd struck, huzzaed and pull-. ed nearer ; we huzzaed, and petted away at them.; they drew back. " We expert the masts to fall if we should have much wind, before we can reach a port ; in short, we have many shots between wind and water, and some such large pieces knocked out of the side, that I could almost creep through, arid we are a mere wreck. Our boats are shot ail to pieces, an arm-chest on the poop blown to pieces by their shells; but thank God, we beat them off. We suppose their loss in men must be three times, greater than ours, considering their numbers, and from what those on our decks saw. Those now in - the Ship, and who were in Lord NELSON'S last action at Trafalgar, say, this surpassed it for hard fighting. The Enemy shewed great courage. 'We have three Officers wounded, and the Serjeant-Major of Marines badly. Captain BARRCTT is unhurt, except in his feelings for his men who have suffered. He walked the deck all the time during the action, as cool and composed as if nothing was doing, encou raging his men. He has given both his cabins. to the wounded, and the Officers . have given them their cots. "We are going to Carlscrona to refit. The worst is, we have nothing but empty honour for this, and hard knocks—no prize -money. " I am writing this on Saturday night. I drink ail' your healths and happiness in a glass of grog. This is a brave Ship's company, somewhat under 400 men, and too much cannot be said in their praise. "If the day-light had continued, two hours longer, and the enemy persevered with a little mere judg ment, they had killed two-thirds of us, or sunk the ship, for she will, with our Captain, never strike her flag \Oita she swims. " I suppose we shall next come to England, as our Ship is above 30 years old, and quite done up. This evening (S3turday), about ten o'clock, we fell in with our Commander in Chief, Sir J. SAUMAREZ, in the Vidory. Capt. BARRETT went on board to him, and got orders, to go, to Carlscrona to repair his damages. " SUNDAY.—I have been on shore with some linen : on 'returning to the Ship I was surprised on viewing the Ship's stern and sides. In the stern there is not a square foot without a shot striking, or a hole : there are 70 holes in it. • We have got some carpenters from the Ships here, and they are busy in repairing the damages, in order, as we suppose, to enable us to proceed to England, where I hope soon to see you all. In the mean time, I hope that God may bless and protect you. BUONAPARTE, in his laconic answer to the Ad dress from the President of the Legislative Body, tells then), that if his duty and inclination lead him to shard the dangers of his soldiers," and adds, " W e are mutually necessary."—Strange as it is to bea r truth from the lips of that man, never did he utter any thing to which the world will more heartily g s ' sent than to this declaration. It is, indeed, his daY ' - to - attend - to his army, for by his military strength" alone is he prote&ed from the vengeance of the Po . ple who are enslaved by him in France, and those whom his minions oppress in other countries. I t must also be his inclination to please that army, for otherwise he would be nothing. That he and hil l army are necessary to each' other cannot be doubt', ed; as, under his command, they are indulged il l every-species of luxury, and permitted to tyranniz e over their countrymen ; and wherever they are sent , to carey on their system of p'under and devastation. But though it , must be granted that BuoNATART S and his army arc, as lie says, mutually necessary' what must be' , thought of the man who could bo so weak, or so ca . te - iess of the opinion of his so b ' jean, as to make such a declaration ? The army' large as it is, con,tkutes but a small part of t he French people, and if he entertained a prope r sense of what he owes to tilt:. Country of whial. he has usurped the Government, he ought t ° consider it rather as his duty to dire& his et' tention to the. whole than to a part, and his clination should of course take the same direaion' He can have but a very imperfe& notion of the ja i ' p.ortant duties which belong to the chara&er of th e . head of a Govern men t, if h e t hi n k s t h at w h en he pleases he_ may leave• his Country and follow his armies. MACHIAVEL, whose political system b e seems in general disposed to adopt, has maintained' that 110 Sovereign ought to quit his Country, n et from a sense of duty merely, but because it is imP li ` tic fora Sovereign to let his People see that the oper a ' tions of Government can go ou very well with etit him. But BOON A P ARTE i s f u ll y aware t h a t b' ; minions at home are wh o lly d epen d ent on hi m , and are so vigilant, that n o t ,a murmur can be uttere d without being known, and that it - is punished ° soon as known. He therefore is wholly regardless of the national feelings, while these feelings a ll under inch a terrific c.ontroul, and takes every P°s si4 ble opportunity of keeping his army in good b tP. mour. Whether, that army, however, will not 10 9 1 with some degree of caution upon the desperate sw, vice to which they are to be led in. Spain, may ad ' . mit of much doubt., Th ey are not to. conten A j1 ' _ . that country with weak potentates, whose O b ' leas are indifferent to their welfare, and Wil° may be rende re d the viatims of terror cr briberY• The French army, will have to encounter the geance of an united people, under the direetica wise Counsellors, of inflexible virtue; and theref°l. it is by no means improbable that those troops 114 feel some of that fear, which the President of the Legislative Body said they all felt for BuoNAFAI though they did no t k now h ow to express it, °I may reasonably apprehend that the hour of retri btl ' Lion is at hand, when the scourge of mankind al reach the terminati on o f hi s i n f amous career , an _ , he they may pa r ti c i pate i n t h e d rea d ful fate which has so long deserved. The more we consid er t h e myster i ous wor d s Of M. DE FONTANES, the more we are surprised ih aC he should be per m itt e d t o utter t h em. T h e y see ms to indicate a strong p resent i ment t h at the p atien ce of mankind can en d ure no l onger t h e atrocities of the Tyrant, who has kept the world in such a State of misery, and that th e j ust i ce o f Heaven i s about to fall on his devoted h ea d. Th e Tyrout himself seemed to be affecied by these ominous words, and faintly thanked them for the solicitude they pressed. He tells them that his return to his Cor tal shall be speedy--a plain proof that he is deter mined to ad with the caution dietated by fear, as tt is impossible that he can suppose be will be able' b l a coup de main, to crown hi s B rother at it/radii° ~---- and fix fix his Eagles on the Towers of h i:: he unless, indeed, it may b e supposed 0"- an thinks he is brought n e a r th e cr i s i s of his la te ' °: has resolved to risk eve r y thi ng upon his expeditlo ,0 to Spain, well knowing that he never had to eac c)l3l3 o ter such formidable dangers before, and tha%3 failure there will exp ose hi m to t h e contem pt as as detestation of mankind. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princess GUSTA, SOPHIA, and A MELIA , accompan i e d by ' 3 .0 , CRANLEY, General FITZROY, and Colonel TO or, took their usual rides i n th e G reat P ar k, a t Winds and returned at twelve. • IVIA" The weather being so ver y un f avoura ble, 1 1 r se. JEST): has not taken his usua l morn i n g ridP '°- veral days past, till yesterday. t rdaY/ His MAJESTY did not come to London Ye s , -e , a , Ministers having no business to transact with I., — day, Tuesday, being Princess AUGUSTA'S birtlgam the same was observed and kept by the IlnYa iete d mily, at Windsor. Her Royal Highness colnP` her 40th year. JaY at Tuesday the Duk e o f Y ORK h e ld a public c -; to his Office in the Horse Gu a rd s , an d gave aud iell Yjis a number :of Military Officers of distinaion' „ e r Royal Highness transaeted business at &fife' ter Yesterday et ed the Duke of C LARE NCS tranS` — Sineis at flu: Duke el Ycnix's Office. I